Synonyms for quag

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kwag, kwog

Phonetic Transcription : kwæg, kwɒg

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Définition of quag

Origin : "marshy spot," 1580s, a variant of Middle English quabbe "a marsh, bog," from Old English *cwabba "shake, tremble" (like something soft and flabby).

noun swamp

Example sentences :

Bene, satis, male,— Where was I with my trope 'bout one in a quag?
Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various

I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.
Extract from : « The Splendid Spur » by Arthur T. Quiller Couch

Quaw or quagh; a quag or quagmire:—'I was unwilling to attempt the quagh.'
Extract from : « English As We Speak It in Ireland » by P. W. Joyce

But the light is at the inn, and there is no quag in front of that.
Extract from : « Return of the Native » by Thomas Hardy

Once the quag was so deep, that to avoid sinking in it we had to be carried, one by one, on the back of our Malay driver.
Extract from : « Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I » by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

"I always said old Cornelius Husk was slow," said one Quag man to another.
Extract from : « Toaster's Handbook » by Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers

There is a quag between us and that light, and you will walk into it up to your neck unless I take you round.
Extract from : « Return of the Native » by Thomas Hardy

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